Adventures in Babysitting

She thought babysitting was easy money - until she started hanging out with the Andersons.

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Podcast Release Date:
Jul 15, 2022

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Elisabeth Shue thought she was in for a night of Häagen-Dazs and bedtime stories, but winds up stranding three children in downtown Chicago in the 1987 comedy Adventures In Babysitting. Can the teenager get her charges safely back to suburbia before the parents learn they’ve been crashing frat parties, stealing porn mags from mafioso, and dangling from skyscrapers after curfew?  And is Chris Columbus’ directorial debut also part of the Thor retrospective?  Find out when you become a Now Playing Patron this July, or you’ll be left singing the Babysitter’s Blues.     

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Movie Details

Series
Patron Exclusives
Director
Chris Columbus
Runtime
1 h 42 min
Release Date
1 July 1987
Genres
Comedy
Overview
When plans with her boyfriend fall through, high school senior Chris Parker ends up babysitting the Anderson kids, Brad and Sara. What should be a quiet night in, however, turns into a series of ridiculous exploits, starting when they leave the house to pick up Chris' friend Brenda. Soon, Brad's buddy Daryl is involved, and the group must contend with car thieves, blues musicians and much more.

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